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I've been with you on this, but I think we are wrong. Here's where I'm at: (without foreigner's statement)

1 blue eyed person- He know's nothing, nothing happens

2 blue eyed people- Each thinks the other could be the only blue but they don't know it... deadlock.

3 blue eyed people- Each thinks the other two are caught in the 2 person deadlock scenario knowing nothing.

4 blue eyed people- Each thinks the other 3 are caught in the 3 person scenario etc...

Once the foreigner adds the knowledge:

1- he'd leave the first day

2- the second would recognize the first didn't leave, they'd both leave on day 2

3- the third would recognize the first two didn't leave on day 2, etc, etc, we were wrong...bollocks.




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